Performed by Sinéad O’Connor and Danny O’Reilly & & the
RTE Concert Orchestra.

Lyrics by Daniel O'Donnell

Presented by Kaamilah
Bint Qadar (Kate Bates)

A ray of hope flickers in the sky
A tiny star lights up way up high
All across the land dawns a brand new morn'
This comes to pass when a child is born.

A
silent wish sails the seven seas
The winds of change whisper in the trees
And the walls of doubt crumble, tossed and torn
This comes to pass when a child is born.

A
rosey hue settles all around
You got the feel, you're on solid ground
For a spell or two no-one seems forlorn
This comes to pass when a child is born.

(Spoken)A
nd all of this happens because the world is waiting
Waiting for one child, black, white, yellow - no one knows
But a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter
Hate to love, war to peace and everyone to everyone's neighbour
And misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten, forever.

(Sung)It's
all a dream, an illusion now
It must come true sometime soon, somehow
All across the land dawns a brand new morn'
This comes to pass when a child is born.

This
comes to pass when a child is born...

With Much Love from Dada Basheer, Dadi Kaamilah and our Grand daughters.

They
eat three full meals a day, drink from a cup, they've grown teeth and
can walk and talk, but these three-year-old triplets are still breastfed
by their mother once or twice a day.

Davina
Wright, 45, has been breastfeeding her triplets - Willow, Connor and
Summer - since they were born and will continue as long as she is
physically capable.

Ms
Wright, who lives in Hong Kong with her husband Jason, was doing 30-40
feeds a day when their two daughters and son were first born but has
since scaled back to just morning and night.

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Davina Wright, 45, has been
breastfeeding her triplets - Connor, Willow and Summer - since they were
born and will continue as long as she is physically capable

'They
each have their own room and I go in to each of them individually and
it is a lovely bit of one-on-one time,' Ms Wright told Daily Mail
Australia.

'At
three years old they are basically just fed to sleep, not that they
actually fall asleep, it's more like 'fed to calm/sleepy'.

'In
reality it is only about 10-15 minutes of their day, their hectic,
chaotic, loud, busy, competitive, triplet day, where they get to sit
quietly by themselves with mummy.'

Ms
Wright also breastfeeds first thing in the morning and she says the
three toddlers are highly competitive as they fuss over who has to wait
to be nursed.

'My
kids walk and talk and eat solid food and drink from a cup and are
independent and have a full set of teeth... all the things that people
point out as reasons for weaning, but in actuality a child can do all
these things and still be breastfed,' she said.

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Ms Wright says her triplets eat solid
food and have a full set of teeth but she still breastfeeds morning and
night to spend one-on-one time with each of her children

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The three toddlers can be highly competitive as they fuss over who waits to be nursed, according to Ms Wright

'I
think the weaning down of feeds during the day was partly because we
got so busy… there was play and stimulation and they just asked for it
less.

'I
really only say no to them now... when we are out in public. I say that
we will wait until we are home for that now, simply because I am aware
of how many eyes are on us.'

The
Wrights, who lived in New Zealand when the triplets were born, tried
several plans before finally working out how to breastfeed three hungry
mouths and still manage to sleep.

'We
finally settled on (Jason) sleeping in the nursery with the two girls
and bottle feeding them my breast milk at night,' she said.

'I
would sleep in our bedroom with the third one and breastfeed him. Then
after every feed I would pump the breast milk, which became the next
nights feeding for the girls.

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Davina and her husband Jason gave birth to triplets after two rounds of IVF when they lived in New Zealand

2 comments:

"Is it not incredible to be blessed with our children and grand babies? I am having startling infusion of emotions."

SweetheartAs salaamu 'alaykum!

Well, Honey, you bonded with our three grand daughters, but this one biological bond is a lot stronger than anything else. What children and grandchildren often do not realise is that when they bring forth new life, part or much of us is in that new life. They do not fully realise that others also love their child and are their child’s best friend, and sometimes their benefactors, and even more, they are their child’s grandparents, grandmother or grandfather with an indestructible bond and for life. That “startling infusion of emotions” is part of that biological and even spiritual bond. And I am here to protect you if and when those feelings are not appreciated or reciprocated. But, for now let us just be happy at the new life - less for us and more for the mother, and insha’Allah for the father as well.

The "family" video I had uploaded has been made private by the owner most probably without me being informed. I am just wondering if I need also to remove the entire post if it is deemed inappropriate.BAFS